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His eyes slowly opened then shut again. He rubbed his eyes and opened them once more as he stood up.

"Holy shit!" he spun around in three hundred and sixty degree circle, "this has to be a nightmare or something."

The concret walls were covered in sheets, almost like they were going to fumigate for bugs, but the sheets were stained with rust and blood. The title floor had been replaced with rusted metal grating and below was an endless black abyss. With the exception of the split headed dog,the hospital had been quiet before, but now it was filled with what sounded like strange chanting and radio static. The radio static seemed to be getting louder. Some thing in the distance moaned and started towards him.

"A nurse?" he uttered

The more the nurse came into focus the more he realized that it wasn't the type of nurse you wanted taking your blood or giving you a sponge bath. Her head was lopped over and twitched every so often. She didn't seemed to have any control over her motor functions and was dragging herself toward him rather then walking. Her clothes were covered in blood and her skin was a sickly pale gray color. She carrying a lead pipe in her right, which seemed to have no trouble working, and took a swing at Cody. She missed but the shock of being swung at by a monster nurse was enough to knock him off his feet. He quickly scrambled to his feet and retieved the gun from the floor where he had passed out. He fired three shots at the nurse and she fell to the ground. She didn't die like the split head, but went into convulsions moaning and gurgling. Not wanting to waste bullets he gave her a swift kick in the head and she fell silent, finally dead. The radio static stopped as soon as the nurse died. He leaned over rsting his hands on his knees and tried to catch his breath. He'd had weird drug induced dreams before but nothing like this. When he uprighted himself again he caught sight of a faded hospital map pinned to the wall and took it. He looked the map over and then looked at the dead nurse monster.

"This bullshit!" he spat crumpling the map. He returned to the front doors and reached for the door knob, but there wasn't one. He tried pushing, hitting and kicking it, nothing worked to open it. As he back away from it he realized there was something writen on it in red.

SOMETIMES THE WAY FORWARD IS THE WAY BACK.

"What the...damn it!" he hit the door once more before uncrumpling the map and looking for another way out of the hell hospital. Looking at the map he found that he was in the main lobby and all the doors here were now locked, except the double doors leading to the first floor patient wing. "Why not," he thought, "it can't get much worse." He slipped through the doors into the hallway, it was pitch black. The only light was comming from the open door of the first room. He tucked the map away and entered the room. It was trashed, the bed was on it side and tossed into a corner. The window was broken and there were tiles missing on the floor. The light was coming from a flashlight tucked into the front jacket pocket of a mannequin that stood in the center of the room. Cody stood there and stared at it, it look exactly like him. It had the same white t-shirt, blue jeans and black boots. It was even wearing the same silver chain around it neck that he was wearing, the only difference was the mannequin was wearing a black leather jacket over the white shirt. A red pocket radio was hanging off the mannequin's right hand. Cody took the jacket with the flashlight and slipped it on, he also took the red radio. He switched it on and loud static came through. He tried turning the dial this way and that, but nothing happened. He tucked the radio into the inner pocket of the jacket and turned to leave, when something behind him screamed and made a loud thud. He slowly turned around gripping the gun to face the mannequin, it head had been cut off and was laying on the floor in a pool of blood.

"Jesus!!" he gasped and stumbled backward out the door and against the wall, "I can't...that can't...who the hell is doing this to me!!" he shouted.

He slide down the length of the wall to floor and sat with his head in his hands, "am I being punished?" his mind wondered. He ran a hand through his blonde hair and took a deep breath. "some asshole is just trying to scare me." he thought, " and I'm not going to let them." He stood up and started down the hall, checking the doors as he went. He found only two other rooms to be open, in them he found some bullets and some heath drinks of some kind. He pulled out the crumpled map and looked it over, there was door at the end of this hall the led to a stair well and in that stair well was an emercency exit leading out. He head down the hall towards that door, when the radio suddenly came on filling the hall with static and white noise.

"What the hell?"

He looked down at the radio in his pocket and then he heard that familar moan. This monster nurse was the same as first, except instead of a lead pipe she had a gun and it was pointed at Cody. Her aim was worse then first nurse, she shot everything the hall, except him. He raised his own gun and fired three times and just as before the nurse fell to the ground and started convulsing. He kicked her and she fell silent.

"I get it." he said panting, "the radio is a monster radar, it like warns me when theres monsters, well thats one good thing."

He made he was way to the stairwell and the emergency exit door. He reach out and turned the knob, it was locked. There was a note pinned to it.

To Whom it matters:

They gave the key to George, that bumbling idiot.

last time I saw him he was playing with the kids in the

childrens ward on the third floor.

Get the key from him if you need it, that is if he hasn't lost it.

"Damn!" he looked up the stairs, "guess I go up and find George, if there is a George."

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Thanks you all for your reviews, I'm sorry it took me so long to update, I had to deal with some personal problems. Please review my second chapter and Ill get the third up as soon as I can. Karry